The violin Michel Boutelje built
Michel Boutelje
the workshop of Michel Boutelje.
9.4.2023
In the fifties, my father, Shlomo Bezek (Lorsch) wrote to the absentee property authorities in the Netherlands that he was looking for his sister Lea Lorsch's violin. It was a special violin that built for her by her husband Michel Boutelje (1909 – 1945). To his disappointment, the answer he received was “that the violin was not found”.
The other day we learned about the high quality of t…
After the war in early 1946, everyone went upstairs to the balcony terrace at the back at Prins Hendriklaan 42 for this family photo, because there was more light and space to take the photo, as Sallie thought, who took the photo. From top right Shlomo Bezek and in front of him his girlfriend Janny looking at the eldest son of Shlomo with Alice de Vries his first wife. On the other side next to Ar…
